Month: June 2010

Johnny Ralph Ralph was a champion cyclist and a committed Communist Party member. He was born on 6th October 1931 at Hammersmith hospital and his family lived locally in the Acton and Hammersmith area. His father […]

William Joss Willie (sometimes Bill in later years) Joss was a founder member of the Communist Party, born in 1879 in Scotland. He was won to Marxian socialism, especially on economics, by hearing William Gee […]

Joe Fineberg Joe Fineberg (sometimes Feinberg) was born in Poland in 1886. He became a prominent working class member of the British Socialist Party’s East of LondonJewish section, the “Jewish Social Democratic Organisation”, or JSDO. ) […]

W J Thomas Thomas was a Communist Party member from Port Talbort, South Wales, who fought in the International Brigade in Spainagainst Franco's fascists. One year into the Second World War, in September 1940, […]

Welsh-speaking Councillor Mavis Llewellyn, of Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, in South Wales, was an “orator almost unparalleled among the women of Britain”. A teacher by profession, she had learned to become an Air Raid Precaution lecturer, […]

Eric Whalley Born in 1914, the second son of Tom and Charlotte Whalley, at 31 George Street, Mansfield, Eric’s father was active in the Labour Party and his mother in the Co-operative movement. Eric began […]

Elinor Burns Margaret Elinor Burns (nee Enfield), born in Loughborough in 1887, was active in the labour movement from 1918. She joined Edmonton Co-operative Society in 1919. A member of the London Co-operative from its formation […]

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THE EARLY DAYS 1. Introduction 2. 17th Century Democrats 3. The crowd in action 4. Lead Mining in Derbyshire 5. From Guild to Union 6. The Woolcombers 7. Framework Knitting 8. Cotton Mills 9. The [...]